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#yonoveljokes: The Texas tie to the funniest literary hashtag on Twitter

For those of you who had better things to do late Friday than sit around and read Twitter — there was a rather hilarious exchange between a couple of writers who, um, apparently had nothing better to do than spend their Friday night tweeting.

Mansbach would be the author of the best-selling non-children’s book, Go the **** to Sleep, which should be your clue that some of their humor is likely to offend sensitive readers, so don’t click if you fall into that category.

Especially when you learn that his partner in this festival of insults is Mat Johnson, author of Pym, (which we reviewed here), who teaches at the University of Houston and often tweets on off-color, off-kilter, bawdy and bizarrely funny topics.

So, with that warning in place, here’s a sampling of the WWF meets OED smackdown that followed:

.@mat_johnson Oh yeah, well yo' novel so pompous & arrogant, the answers to the Readers' Guide Questions are pre-written by Jonathan Franzen

For more, including the R-rated stuff, check out their Twitter feeds, @mat_johnson and @adammansbach.

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